by S.A. Barnes (Barnes)
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes — no relation to the other books, films, and albums using this popular title — is one of my favorite kinds of horror: a small group stumbles across something unexpected and explores it, which turns out to be a terrible idea. (But fun to read about!)
In this case, space communication array technicians pick up a faint distress signal and find an enormous, luxury space ship that went missing years ago. Their leader happens to be the lone survivor of a colony disaster as a child and she has been seeing ghosts ever since. As soon as she steps onto the luxury ship, her visions intensify. The team explores the ship, looking for valuable salvage and trying to solve the mystery of what happened before an inevitable corporate cover-up. Then things turn nightmarish.
Dead Silence has a smartly written story structure and satisfying follow-through on lots of little things brought up along the way.
Recommended for fans of The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, Blindsight by Peter Watts, and the film Alien.
( official Dead Silence page on the official Stacey Kade/S.A. Barnes web site )
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by Garren H.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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